New Pitch Modulation Tricks Video Is Up Now!

Feeling like your leads and plucks and pads are static and plasticy and lifeless? Unsure how to liven them up?

Take a gander at our latest tutorial video, and learn a few of our tried and true sound design techniques to instantly improve your sounds, with minimal effort!

Our Virus TI2 Presets Are Compatible With The Usual Suspects OsTIrus!

You heard it here first! All Kulshan Studios hardware soundbanks for the Access Virus TI2 are fully compatible with The Usual Suspects OsTIrus emulator plugin! All the original HyperSaws, Wavetables, Graintables, filters, modulations, FX, and original oscillator waves are perfectly-emulated in the DSP56300 Project’s code clone, and our Trance, Psytrance, House, Hands Up, Dubstep, and other hardware soundbanks will all load into the plugin with 100% accuracy! Whether you’re using only the software, or keeping it as a backup in case your hardware breaks, you’ll have full access to the exact same sounds no matter what!

So you can just load the soundbanks in, and get busy writing your next club smasher with the full power of the Virus!

To load the presets into the plugin, after you install the plugin and get the firmware installed, open the plugin, and go to

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Right click on Data Sources

Select Add Folders

Choose the master folder where you store all your downloaded soundsets

The preset packs will all appear in Data Sources under their various folder and subfolder names, and since the packs are organized by genre, and subdivided by patch category, you can get right to work writing your next massive festival anthem!

Transform your productions with authentic Virus tones. Shop the preset collection below

Note: you can improve the emulator plugin’s dynamic polyphony and increase the available voices of the synth by using an external reverb plugin like ValhallaRoom, ValhallaShimmer, Valhalla Supermassive, or Valhalla VintageVerb, or Eventide Blackhole. If you use ValhallaRoom, here are some free presets optimized for modern productions using the Virus that will add professional depth and space to your tracks

Our Nord Lead 2 & Nord Lead 2X Presets Are Compatible with The Usual Suspects NodalRed2X and Discovery Pro!

You heard it right! All Kulshan Studios hardware Nord Lead 2/ Nord Lead 2X soundsets will work in The Usual Suspects NodalRed2X Nord Lead emulator and DiscoDSP’s Discovery Pro plugin! All the original filters, modulations, and oscillator waves are perfectly-emulated in the DSP56300 Project’s code clones and Discovery Pro’s VST instrument, and our Trance, Psytrance, House, Techno, Drum n Bass, Synthwave, and Ambient hardware soundbanks will all load into the plugins with 100% accuracy! Whether you’re using only the software, or keeping it as a backup in case your hardware breaks, you’ll have full access to the exact same sounds no matter what!

So you can just load the soundbanks in, and get busy writing your next club banger with the raw power of the Nord Lead 2X!

To load the presets into the plugin, after you install the plugin and get the firmware installed, open the VST, and go to

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Right click on Data Sources

Select Add Folders

Choose the master folder where you store all your downloaded soundsets

The preset packs will all appear in Data Sources under their various folder and subfolder names, and since the packs are organized by genre, and subdivided by patch category, you can get right to work writing your next massive festival anthem!

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Transform your productions with authentic razor-sharp Nord Lead 2X tones. Shop the preset collection below

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Note: you can improve the emulator plugin’s sound by using an external reverb effect like ValhallaRoom, ValhallaShimmer, Valhalla Supermassive, Valhalla VintageVerb, or Eventide Blackhole. If you use ValhallaRoom, here are a handful of free presets optimized for modern productions using the Nord Lead 2X that will add professional depth and space to your tracks.

Our Virus C & Virus B Presets Are Compatible With The Usual Suspects Osirus!

You heard it here at the source! All Kulshan Studios hardware Virus C/Virus B soundsets will work 100% in the The Usual Suspects Osirus plugin! All the original filters, modulations, FX, and oscillator waves are perfectly-emulated in the DSP56300 Project’s code clones, and our Trance, Psytrance, Hands Up, and other hardware soundbanks will all load into the plugin with 100% accuracy! Whether you’re using only the software, or keeping it as a backup in case your hardware breaks, you’ll have full access to the exact same sounds no matter what!

You can grab the packs right now and put the power of classic Virus synths in your modern tunes!

So you can just load the soundbanks in, and get busy writing your next club banger with the full power of the Virus C and Virus B!

To load the presets into the plugin, after you install the plugin and get the firmware installed, open the plugin, and go to

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Right click on Data Sources

Select Add Folders

Choose the master folder where you store all your downloaded soundsets

The preset packs will all appear in Data Sources under their various folder and subfolder names, and since the packs are organized by genre, and subdivided by patch category, you can get right to work writing your next massive festival anthem!

Transform your productions with authentic Virus tones. Shop the preset collection below

Note: you can improve the emulator plugin’s dynamic polyphony and increase the available voices of the synth by using an external reverb plugin like ValhallaRoom, ValhallaShimmer, Valhalla Supermassive, or Valhalla VintageVerb, or Eventide Blackhole. If you use ValhallaRoom, here are some free presets optimized for modern productions using the Virus that will add professional depth and space to your tracks

Our JP8080 & JP8000 Presets Are Compatible With The Usual Suspects JE-8086 Plugin!

You heard it here at the source! All Kulshan Studios hardware JP8000/JP8080 performance banks work on The Usual Suspects JE-8086 VST plugin! All the original SuperSaws, filters, modulations, FX, and oscillator waves are perfectly-emulated in the DSP56300 Project’s code clones, and all our Trance, Techno, Hands Up, House, Hardstyle, Drum n Bass, Ambient, and Synthwave hardware soundbanks will all load into the plugin with 100% accuracy! Whether you’re using only the software, or keeping it as a backup in case your hardware breaks, you’ll have full access to the exact same sounds no matter what!

So if you’ve been wanting to use our sounds in a bit-perfect plugin that IS exactly a JP80x0, your time has come!

You can just load the soundbanks in, and get right to work writing your next club smasher with the full power of the legendary JP8000!

To load the presets into the plugin, after you install the plugin and get the firmware installed, open the plugin, and go to

Browser

Right click on Data Sources

Select Add Folders

Choose the master folder where you store all your downloaded soundsets

The preset packs will all appear in Data Sources under their various folder and subfolder names, and since the packs are organized by genre, and subdivided by patch category, you can get right to work writing your next massive festival anthem!

Transform your productions with authentic JP8080 tones. Shop the performance bank collection below

Note: you can improve the emulator plugin’s sound by using an external reverb plugin like ValhallaRoom, ValhallaShimmer, Valhalla Supermassive, or Valhalla VintageVerb, or Eventide Blackhole. If you use ValhallaRoom, here are some free presets optimized for modern productions using the JP that will add professional depth and space to your tracks

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!

We’ve been keeping this under wraps for a couple months, but now we are proud to announce that we spent the last few weeks working with DiscoDSP to overhaul and expand the Factory I bank on their Discovery Pro VSTi, and it is part of the latest release of the 8.14 update!

So existing Discovery Pro users, you can grab your updated version, and discover a whole world of epic Trance, Hardstyle, Psytrance, House, Techno, Pop, Drum n Bass, and Dubstep sounds, all ready to use in your next big tune!

Most of the sounds we made for the new Factory I bank were designed using features totally unique to Discovery Pro, so if you like the sound of our banks for the original Nord Lead 2X, you can combine our banks with the new factory sounds, to make even more massive Trance, House, Ambient, DnB, and Industrial tunes!

Our Jupiter-X Banks Are Compatible With Zenology Pro!

You heard it right! Our Jupiter-X banks, the ones included with the JD-08 soundbanks, all load into the Zenology Pro VSTi!

So if you’re a Zenology Pro user in search of some new sounds for it, swing on by our JD-08 section and check out what we’ve got!

GearNews Review of the new Virus C Soundbank!

GearNews’ contributor Rob Puricelli just included Nisli’s latest Virus C/B soundbank in his review of some new synth presets and MPE gear! Check it out and see what the GearNews crew are saying about Nisli’s latest work!

New Virus C & Virus B Soundset is out now!

Hey Virus C and B users! Nisli just wrapped up work on another soundbank for the Access Virus C and B! This time it’s a big collection of Psytrance presets, for Full On, Progressive, Dark, and Forest Psytrance!

So if you’ve been wanting some fresh psychedelic sounds for your C, now you have some to work with!

How The JP8080 SuperSaw Is Really Made

The secret’s out! The Usual Suspects developers cracked the code on what gives the JP8000 SuperSaw its unique character, and… it is not what you’d expect

(88.2 kHz sample rate, is the answer, apparently)

The devs go into greater detail in this video

How To Use Access Virus C FX On Other Synths

Love your Virus C FX and wish you could use them on your Moog, or Nord, or Prophet? Don’t know how to make that work?

Wonder no more!

Just plug the output(s) of your source synth into the Inputs on the back of the Virus C, turn on the Virus, and in Bank C, scroll to the end of the bank, to patch #125.

The preset is called >>INPUT<<

Start playing sounds from your source synth, and start experimenting with the FX and filters!

Enjoy!

Can You Use A Phone Charger To Power A Roland JD-08?

The answer, is yes, yes you can. We’re using a 25W Hoco phone charger on a 2 meter USB-C cable to power our JD-08. Pretty much any brand should suffice, although if Roland offers their own special charger for these things, go with that, if you want.

We’re using a regular DIN-to-USB interface cable to connect the JD for MIDI, because running the JD entirely over USB was throwing super crazy MIDI signals into the synth that were triggering random parameters whether we wanted it or not.

Windows 11 is funny about MIDI, and so rather than fight with it forever, and we didn’t want to spend a king’s ransom on batteries, we opted to run the synth in a more traditional way.

Since the user manual is vague on what kind of external power these can safely run on, we rolled the dice, and went with a regular wall wart phone charger.

And, it works!

So if you ended up here from a google search that had previously given you little more than an aging Reddit thread, this nugget in 2025 is direct and authoritative from us here at Kulshan Studios.

Good luck!

More News for Virus Users!

Well folks, Nisli worked hard, and has gotten the FIRST Virus C AND Virus B soundbank made, and they’re for sale in our shop right now!

They’re contained in the same pack, so when you buy the pack for the C, you also get the pack for the B at the same time. They’ve said they’ll work on making the sounds work on the Virus A as well, but that may be a little ways off.

But for now, enjoy these 94 Trance sounds for the Access Virus C and Virus B, ready to use in your next monster tune!

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We're Branching Out!

If you enjoy our sounds, and want to achieve clean, professional mixdowns using then, without having to do a lot of guesswork or wade through hours of contradictory Youtube videos, you are now in luck!

We convinced Dawnchaser and Amiranu to send us the FL Studio project files for their best recent tunes, and we compiled their EQ and FX processing chains into one tidy, organized project file, and you can grab it right now!

Check it out here

Secret LFO Trick for Roland JD-08

Those of you who have a JD-08 may have discovered the free-running rate on the LFO only goes up to 100, and it is far short of the buzzy audio rate speed that makes for cool buzzing lead sounds.

Turns out there’s a secret trick that allows you to pass that 100 rate, and push it to the extreme.

First, you need to dive into the System menu to set the JD’s MIDI clock source to Internal.

After that, press and hold Common, and then press Effect, to switch the JD to its hidden Internal Tempo setting. The default is 120.0. Crank it up to 300.0 (the maximum).

After that, press Common and Effect again to exit that menu system.

Press Common, and go to LFO, and set LFO 1 to Sync - ON.

Exit the Common menu system, and go to the pitch control section. Nudge the Pitch LFO control up some, to help preview the sound when you start modding it.

Go to the LFO 1 control section, and while playing notes, start turning up the LFO Rate. Up until 1/32 or so it sounds like the normal LFO speed. Once you pass it and get into 1/64, you enter proper audio rate territory.

While designing our N R G! Hands Up Soundset for Roland JD-08, we use 1/64t a lot, because it hits the high rate buzzy sweet spot many classic Tune Up! and Groove Coverage sounds hit in their classic tunes.

You may find it useful for genres other than Hands Up and Eurodance, so, have fun!

Can The Access Virus C Load Virus TI Patches?

The short answer: Sort of?

The long answer:

So, since the Virus C lacks wavetables, HyperSaws, and a bunch of the bonus FX, and even has fewer FX slots overall, forcing you to choose between Reverb and Delay on sounds, if you try to import a TI patch into the C, you could get chaos, unless the TI sound used the same parameters a C has in its menus.

As our sound designer associate has learned, pretty much all HyperSaw-based leads will default Oscs 1 and 2 to Pulse waves, with the PW thrown out to about 2:00 on the dials. Some Distortion FX get auto-ported to the Highpass distortion option. And the ratio delays get auto converted to Reverb (even though the C has 2:1, 4:3, etc, Delays available). The EQs mostly get reverted to their default positions, so expect to have to tweak those if you try to port over sounds.

Any sounds made using standard analog-style waveforms survive the upload though, and even most LFO and modulation settings make it through, although some that are routed to Destinations of FX that are not in the C’s memory get defaulted to random Destinations.

There ARE workarounds to the HyperSaw problem, vis a vis Unison, and running all 3 oscs at once, but it’s risky doing so for pads, because of voice stealing, which becomes more pronounced when Osc 3 is active.

However, our designer friend found that raw and gritty Trance leads, in the vibe of Raus by DuMonde, or Back by Airbase, or Symphonica by Timmus sound great. That classic Virus sound definitely does not disappoint, once you compensate for the functionality differences between the TI and C.

So there you have it. Virus TI sounds CAN be loaded into the Virus C, but some will require some work to sound similar.

News For Access Virus Users!

Hey Virus C, B, and A users! We have news!

One of our MIDI pack creators is partnering with us to work on an extensive project to port our current and future Virus TI Series soundsets over to the older Virus models! They’re focusing on the sounds the older synths are actually capable of, so some of the crazier wavetable and HyperSaw leads won’t survive the conversion, but a lot of other sounds will, and Ascension is mostly complete, for the Virus C!

After that they’ll start porting sounds over to the B and A, and sometime early next year, you’ll start seeing fresh banks for the entire Access Virus synth family up in our store!

So if you’ve been waiting for us to get off our keister and start making sounds for you, get ready! Because one of our vendors is making it happen! Stay tuned!

ATTENTION ADAM SZABO AIRWAVE VST USERS

Adam Szabo, the maker of the JP6K and Viper VSTs just released a JP-8080 VST clone, and it sounds awesome! It’s called Airwave, and from the demos, it sounds spectacular!

If you’re wondering if our JP banks will load into the new Airwave JP-modeling plugin, the answer, direct from the developer to us, is YES.

If you have been wanting a proper JP, and want a plugin that natively loads our banks, and sounds like the original, Airwave is IT!

Grab it, and our banks, and start making your classic-flavored trance anthems today!

📢 Important Update: Price Adjustment Incoming January 1st + Your Exclusive Loyalty Pre-Sale!

Hey everyone, all of us at Kulshan Studios wanted to announce an important update!

Effective January 1st, 2026, our sound bank prices will be adjusted across our entire catalog. This change reflects the increased effort involved in the growing complexity, cross-compatibility, and sheer volume of world-class patches we deliver every month. It’s a lot of work for us to maintain the high standards you’ve come to expect!

Most of our products, particularly the flagship synths like the Sequential Prophet Rev2 and Access Virus TI, and classics like the Nord Lead 3, JP-8080 and Nord Lead 2X, as well as multi-format banks for the boutique JD-08, will officially move to their new tiered pricing then. These changes reflect the synths’ pedigrees, the additional instruments that can load their presets, and the growing number of software plugins (like OsTIrus) that can run their patches.

The Loyalty Pre-Sale: Your Last Chance to Save Big!

As a thank you for your ongoing support, we are offering an exclusive opportunity to purchase any pack at the current, low price, with an added discount.

This Loyalty Pre-Sale runs from now through January 1st, 2026! And here is the best part: All current sales discounts still apply!

This is your absolute last chance to save before the new, permanent price structure takes effect.

So don't wait until the New Year! Secure your sound banks now and write your hits at the best possible price.

JD-800, JUNO-X AND JUPITER-X USERS!

BIG update from us here, for all you users of the JD-08, JD-800, Juno-X, Jupiter-X, and Jupiter-Xm!

ALL our JD-08 soundbanks now include bank files for the original JD-800, and for the JD-800 Model Expansion for the Jupiter-X and Juno-X synths!

And they’ve included files for the JD-800 Cloud VST for a while now, so you also have that available, if you use the plugin version!

So if you’ve been waiting for us to make sounds for those synths, your time has come!